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Monday Mini-Review: THE BIRD CATCHER is an appealing introduction to Bangladeshi-American fiction

Natalia Sylvester: The Book That Made Me Want to Be a Writer

My Favorite Books of 2018

Five Reasons You Should Toot Someone Else's Horn

EVERYTHING UNDER reinvents the Oedipus myth to explore contemporary fate and free will

Just in time for Cyber Monday...it's a 12-book giveaway!

Celeste Ng shares a favorite hidden gem: The Celestials by Karen Shepard

Rebecca Makkai explores the varieties of literary mansplaining

WAYS TO DISAPPEAR explores a life in translation in modern Brazil

The Things That Write Me: From Myths and Grandmothers to the Lives of Modern Women

Not Feckless: A Writer Becomes a Publisher in a Moment of Rage

Book Chat: Virginia Pye talks about her new book, Shelf Life of Happiness, with Margaret Grant

Keija Parssinen: Writing Out of Rage (How Sexual Politics Inspired “The Unraveling of Mercy Louis”)

THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS imagines a world in which misogyny is taken to new extremes

Rene Steinke: On Elizabeth Bishop, Teaching, and "A Perfectly Useless Concentration"

OF THINGS GONE ASTRAY offers a captivating journey through loss and rediscovery

An American writer’s trip to Honduras brings her face-to-face with complex, heart-wrenching issues

National Book Foundation announces “5 Under 35” award recipients

My Summer Without Men (Writers): Anne Korkeakivi

Melissa Duclos: When People Ask Me If My Novel is True

HOW I BECAME A NORTH KOREAN an absorbing story of three young people struggling for their freedom

IN THE MIDNIGHT ROOM weaves a tapestry of four diverse lives through 50 years of a changing Las Vegas

Elise Blackwell on Writing as an Approach to Life

Caroline Leavitt and Suzanne Simonetti discuss challenges, craft of writing fiction

Elizabeth Poliner: How mapping the stories of Alice Munro made me a better writer

Want to Write Like a Writer? Read Like One First

A writer's research trip to Honduras forces her to confront life-changing issues

Readers Revealed: What I Learned as an Author by Working in an Indie Bookstore

What I Didn’t Know: Chaitali Sen on the writing of THE PATHLESS SKY

SWAP/MEET's flash fiction condenses nine lives into bittersweet classified ads

Authors in Conversation: Paula Whyman talks with Leslie Pietrzyk about her new novel, SILVER GIRL

Desiree Zamorano: Therapy saved me as a writer

Janet Benton: Stories Have Made Me Who I Am

Dinner and Conversation with Jane Delury and Jessica Anya Blau

Karin Lin-Greenberg on Drawing and Writing: One Thing at a Time

Rebecca Makkai on the varieties of Literary Mansplaining

Brooklyn, Montana: Carrie La Seur on the power of place

EVENTIDE probes the midlife crisis of a college professor with the skill of a brain surgeon

Mary Vensel White: On Touchstones and Finding Writing Support Systems

Author Conversation: Hilary Zaid talks with Rachel Hall about her debut novel, PAPER IS WHITE

Gayle Brandeis: When Fiction Comes True

Author Conversation: Rebecca Johns interviews Michelle Falkoff about making the switch from adult fiction to YA fiction

Short Story Month recommendations: THIS IS PARADISE

Short Story Month recommendations: FAULTY PREDICTIONS

Short Story Month recommendations: DIFFICULT WOMEN

The legacy of inherited PTSD: Reckoning with a traumatic past

Short Story Month recommendations: BOBCAT AND OTHER STORIES

Short Story Month recommendations: KNOW THE MOTHER

Short Story Month recommendations: THE UN-AMERICANS

Fenceless: Why fences, real and writing, only confine us

Short Story Month recommendations: FOOLS

Short Story Month recommendations: BRIGHT SHARDS OF SOMEPLACE ELSE

Short Story Month recommendations: THE OTHER LANGUAGE

Wanting Only to Be Heard: The Emerging Author As a Woman

Short Story Month recommendations: IN THE COUNTRY

Short Story Month recommendations: MUSIC FOR WARTIME

Short Story Month recommendations: THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS

Short Story Month recommendations: NEWS FROM HEAVEN

Short Story Month recommendations: HALF IN LOVE

Authors in Conversation: Mary Morris discusses GATEWAY TO THE MOON with Michelle Brafman

Ellen Urbani: There is No Such Thing as a True Story

Jodi Paloni: May is the kindest month

Ellen Notbohm: The Right Tool for the Job

KIND OF KIN addresses immigration from multiple perspectives, with powerful results

MONSTERS IN APPALACHIA a contemporary take on Southern Gothic desire, temptation, and elusive salvation

Bernadette Murphy: X Games for Nerds

Read Her Like an Open Book returns from the Year of Living Stressfully

My Novel/My Selves: Using Subpersonalities to Create Fictional Characters

National Book Critics Circle announces finalists for 2017 awards

Author Interview: Helen Epstein on THE LONG HALF-LIVES OF LOVE AND TRAUMA: A MEMOIR

THE LONG HALF-LIVES OF LOVE AND TRAUMA a timely memoir of abuse and psychotherapy

THE CHILD FINDER: a page-turning mystery and thought-provoking exploration of suffering and redemption